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Girevik

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I took my kids to a baseball game yesterday. As we were walking to the stadium, I was sending texts, but once I got inside I had nothing. I couldn't use 3G, make a call, or send a text. In fact, my SMODA widget indicated that 3G was turned off. I would have attributed it to an overloaded network due to all the people in the stadium but my son has an AT&T phone and he was able to text so I thought maybe the stadium was partially blocking the signal and for some reason I wansn't picking it up.

But then after the game they had fireworks, and all of a sudden durning those I started getting texts. A lot of folks left before the fireworks, so that give creedence othe overloaded network theory, but why was my son able to text but not me. He doesn't have a smart phone.....could that have something to do with it?
 
Girevik said:
I took my kids to a baseball game yesterday. As we were walking to the stadium, I was sending texts, but once I got inside I had nothing. I couldn't use 3G, make a call, or send a text. In fact, my SMODA widget indicated that 3G was turned off. I would have attributed it to an overloaded network due to all the people in the stadium but my son has an AT&T phone and he was able to text so I thought maybe the stadium was partially blocking the signal and for some reason I wansn't picking it up.

But then after the game they had fireworks, and all of a sudden durning those I started getting texts. A lot of folks left before the fireworks, so that give creedence othe overloaded network theory, but why was my son able to text but not me. He doesn't have a smart phone.....could that have something to do with it?
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it definitely was the stadium and it being crowded, i know when i go to alabama games i get very low service all day. but when i go and theres not a game, service is fine.

but its probably because smartphones dont get service as well as older phones, and then it could also be your modem. youre probably not on a rom or anything, but if you happen to be you can switch up modems and maybe find one that gets better signal for you.
 
Yeah it probably was the overloaded AT&T server due to that fact that you were in a crowded place. Usually I just power my phone off and on again a few times to see if that helps and it usually does.
 
Keep in mind, too that SMS test is not sent over 3G or WiFi data bands. It's a subset of the GSM carrier, so if you have a cell signal, you should also have texts. However, smartphones may not have the same antenna strength as other phones due to all the things we ask them to do.
 
I did restart my phone several times, and that didn't help. It just seemed really strage that I couldn't send a text to save my life, but my son wasn't having any problem at all.
 
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